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| '''Sandra Harding''' (born ]), is an ] philosopher of ] and ], ], research methodology and ]. She has contributed to ] and to the multicultural study of science. She gained some notoriety for seeming to refer to Newton's Laws as a "rape manual". | '''Sandra Harding''' (born ]), is an ] philosopher of ] and ], ], research methodology and ]. She has contributed to ] and to the multicultural study of science. She gained some notoriety for seeming to refer to Newton's Laws as a "rape manual"{{fact}}. | ||
| She is currently a professor of Social Sciences and Comparative Education at ], and the Director of the UCLA Center for the Study of Women. Harding previously taught at the University of Delaware for many years. She earned her PhD from ] (NYU). Harding was married to the philosopher Harold Morick, though the two are now long divorced. | She is currently a professor of Social Sciences and Comparative Education at ], and the Director of the UCLA Center for the Study of Women. Harding previously taught at the University of Delaware for many years. She earned her PhD from ] (NYU). Harding was married to the philosopher Harold Morick, though the two are now long divorced. | ||
| Some of her ideas, which are quite extreme at times, were criticised by scientists ] and ] in ] for being ignorant, biased, and possibly even dangerous, as well as rather silly and not befitting the quality of scholarship one would expect from a tenured professor. This is part of the ongoing controversy known as the ]. | Some of her ideas, which are quite extreme at times{{fact}}, were criticised by scientists ] and ] in ] for being ignorant, biased, and possibly even dangerous, as well as rather silly and not befitting the quality of scholarship one would expect from a tenured professor. This is part of the ongoing controversy known as the ]. | ||
| ==Bibliography== | ==Bibliography== | ||
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Sandra Harding (born 1935), is an American philosopher of feminist and postcolonial theory, epistemology, research methodology and philosophy of science. She has contributed to standpoint theory and to the multicultural study of science. She gained some notoriety for seeming to refer to Newton's Laws as a "rape manual".
She is currently a professor of Social Sciences and Comparative Education at UCLA, and the Director of the UCLA Center for the Study of Women. Harding previously taught at the University of Delaware for many years. She earned her PhD from New York University (NYU). Harding was married to the philosopher Harold Morick, though the two are now long divorced.
Some of her ideas, which are quite extreme at times, were criticised by scientists Paul Gross and Norman Levitt in Higher Superstition for being ignorant, biased, and possibly even dangerous, as well as rather silly and not befitting the quality of scholarship one would expect from a tenured professor. This is part of the ongoing controversy known as the Science Wars.
Bibliography
- Harding, Sandra. The Science Question in Feminism. 1986.
- Harding, Sandra. Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?: Thinking from Women's Lives. 1991.
- Harding, Sandra and Jean F. O'Barr, ed. Sex and Scientific Inquiry. 1987.
- Harding, Sandra and Merrill B. Hintikka, ed. Discovering Reality: Feminist Perspectives on Epistemology, Metaphysics, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science. 1983.
References
Gross, P. & Levitt, N.: Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and its Quarrels with Science. Johns Hopkins University Press. 1994.
External links
- Starting from Marginalized Lives: A Conversation with Sandra Harding
- Who’s Sandra Harding? Where’s She Standing?